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by mchahn 11y ago
Atom uses node so there is no hope of running it in a browser. An atom forum thread: https://discuss.atom.io/t/running-atom-in-the-browser/8925
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by mchahn 11y ago
> would you say that proper usage would be "reversible compilation with zero loss of information"? Isn't that possible with many languages since the compiled code snippets are obvious. I've always thought transpiling
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by mchahn 11y ago
> You have no idea how hard Asm.js is to "read". That was not my experience when I ported a large C app over to asm/emscripten. The mapping from C was very transparent. I had no problem using the dev inspector to debug t
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by mchahn 11y ago
I did a contract project that consisted of porting a C app to asm.js/emscripten. Various C bugs gave results that had to be repeated precisely in javascript. Several other contractors attempted to replicate the behavior using JS rewri
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by mchahn 11y ago
I remember reading that maxwell's daemon couldn't work because the minimum power requirement of flipping the gate would offset the daemon gain. Either that is wrong or this has a different method of operation than the classical d
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by mchahn 11y ago
You are correct. I was going by what a solar city engineer told me. I should have known better than to take them at their word. Our first year we didn't go negative so we had a payment to make at the end of the year. Now that I know
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by mchahn 11y ago
> your refund is decimated and paid at wholesale prices. No. It is paid at the same retail rate that consumers pay. However, because the amount paid is low, the retail rate used is tier 0, which is basically a lifeline rate. But it sti
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by mchahn 11y ago
> salt is widely used across many cultures cuisines because salt is delicious. And also because salt is needed to stay alive.
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by mchahn 11y ago
My read of the article is that there is no more Firefox OS. So I doubt there will be any diversifying or maturing. I don't know what the new thing will be and apparently no one else knows either.
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by mchahn 11y ago
How the heck did this spam get any votes?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Why not round everywhere? Wouldn't this resolve the issue?
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by mchahn 11y ago
It is amazing that self-driving cars are so big a business that customized third-party products are selling, but a fully self-driving car has never shipped to a customer yet. It reminds me of web startups in the way that the business is bi
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by mchahn 11y ago
Is there something wrong with me if I read every new git tutorial I run into even though I usually don't learn anything new? I sometimes learn a new nugget here and there but I think the real reason is that my fundamental understandin
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by mchahn 11y ago
Tesla and Faraday. I guess the next electric car will be a Maxwell. Wait, there was a Maxwell car, now called Chrysler.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Unfortunately I can't afford to replace my hardware. It would be nice if DD-WRT supported zero-handoff but I couldn't find any reference in the website.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The travel time might be the same if the self-driving cars created fewer traffic jams and smooth flowing freeways.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I do have an SSD but other methods to find big dirs/files are much slower. Like find / -xdev -type f -size +${2:-100}M -exec echo {} && du -h {} & \; ; }
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Now imagine you could never ethically satisfy that drive. Ever. Would it be ethical to have sex with a virtual reality child?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Whoa. I just downloaded ncdu and it scanned my system drive in 3 or 4 seconds. How is that possible?
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Ubiquiti UniFi made me realize how terrible consumer Wi-Fi gear is How terrible can consumer wifi be when his Apple AP beat the commercial units on all tests?
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by mchahn 11y ago
> now most devices are a lot smarter about their roaming choices and can more readily shift between multiple access points on the same WLAN. One would think a 2015 Chromebook Pixel would be "smarter" but I have had horrible pro
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm sorry to be negative, but the moment I saw this article I knew I'd see a reference to this cartoon. I assume 98% of HN readers have seen it (too) many times.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Actually I thought it would go back to the server immediately after loading and rendering. Having more time to think about it, I think maybe it's a stupid idea. You could render it in the server with ghost or something just as easily
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by mchahn 11y ago
I apologize in advance for a stupid question, but what is a "flat tree structure"? It sounds like an oxymoron.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The idea of saving the rendered version of the app instead of recreating it server-side is very interesting. However I think this implementation limits its usefulness. It would be very interesting to explore just sending the newly created p
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by mchahn 11y ago
The Atom editor has been using Discourse from the beginning. It works very (extremely?) well as a discussion forum but I turned off all mailing. I had problems controlling the topics sent.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Do you think it would be better for a project starting from scratch? At this moment, yes. Now that I know you can use SSE with any browser, I'm not sure what advantage there is with websockets. Maybe someone can explain.
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by mchahn 11y ago
rexxars/sse-channel has a very useful support of history. When a client is disconnected and then reconnected, events that were missed are automatically resent. They use the ID provided by SSE to know what to send. You can count on a
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm glad to hear other browsers work. I am curious about the padding thing. I don't understand what that has to do with SSE. I thought it was just a new protocol added to the browser.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Sorry, I know nothing about cloudfront.

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